Better Than Hum Why Robots Will-And Must-Take Our Jobs

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In the article, “Better Than Human: Why Robots Will - And Must - Take Our Jobs,” author Kevin Kelly writes about the future of robot jobs with a super positive attitude. He goes to say that 70% of today's occupations will be done by robots. But that will, in turn, create more jobs for humans to do.
How you ask? The humans will be the overseers. They will be the mechanics. They could even be the inventors, or the researchers. But robots can do our current jobs so much faster and much more efficient than we, as humans, can. In the time it takes a person to create one cloth, the robot could have made over a dozen.
On a completely different note, author, Jason Thomson, in his article, “Will The Robots Take Our Jobs?” he believes that all of this

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